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Lot Essay
The arms are those of the Frisian families Altena and Doys. In 1751, Anna Catharine Doys married for the second time with Hendricus Wiardus van Altena and lived on the estate Dekema State in Friesland.
Details
An armorial sauce-boat
Circa 1753
After a European silver prototype, enamelled and gilt to each side with an accolé coat-of-arms surmounted by a coronet and crest, flanked by Louis XV-style scrolls, centred by a rampant lion below the spout, minor glaze frits
18 cm. wide
Circa 1753
After a European silver prototype, enamelled and gilt to each side with an accolé coat-of-arms surmounted by a coronet and crest, flanked by Louis XV-style scrolls, centred by a rampant lion below the spout, minor glaze frits
18 cm. wide
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